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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 89, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.022105
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We study the transport of heat along a chain of particles interacting through a harmonic potential and subject to heat reservoirs at its ends. Each particle has two degrees of freedom and is subject to a stochastic noise that produces infinitesimal changes in the velocity while keeping the kinetic energy unchanged. This is modeled by means of a Langevin equation with multiplicative noise. We show that the introduction of this energy-conserving stochastic noise leads to Fourier's law. By means of an approximate solution that becomes exact in the thermodynamic limit, we also show that the heat conductivity kappa behaves as kappa = aL/(b + lambda L) for large values of the intensity lambda of the energy-conserving noise and large chain sizes L. Hence, we conclude that in the thermodynamic limit the heat conductivity is finite and given by kappa = a/lambda.
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